Watch: <i>Dexter</i> teases final season with first footage

It's official: the eighth season of Dexter will be the series' last. The long-running serial killer drama series starring Michael C Hall will return to screens later this this year for one last hurrah.

The announcement of the series' end came alongside the release of a new teaser clip. Check it out above!

After the fade out, fans were met with "The end begins Sunday June 30 9pm ET/PT", signalling the end of the road for the Showtime series, which screens in Australia on Foxtel's Showcase channel. Despite a return to record ratings (its finale landed a whopping 2.8 million viewers for its first airing), it's long been rumoured the series was on the way out.

So what's in store? In season seven, his sister Debra (Jennifer Carpenter) came to terms with learning about Dex's secret obsession. Now, fans can finally look forward to a satisfying conclusion to Dexter's journey as a morality-based serial killer.